Subject: Re: 10th serial port
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/15/2000 14:40:47
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

# I think we should avoid letters for true serial ports, letters have been
# used for various pseudo-tty already (ttyp0, ttyv0, ttyE0, I think we
# also have ttyC0 around).

ttyc0 != ttyC0.  That might get a mite confusing, but it seems reasonable
to reserve tty00 - ttyff for hard-wired ports.

What's ttyC0, anyway?

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# Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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